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    - Changing Styles This is crazy. I am trying to change the style "COOL" in the document to another style called "NOTSOCOOL". I wrote this: With ActiveDocument.Range.Find .Style = "COOL" .ClearFormatting .MatchWildcards = False With .Replacement .Style = "NOTSOCOOL" End With .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End With Doesn't work! I am positive that nothing extra is set, the same code (when .style is removed and .text is added) finds and replaces words with no problems. The styles definitely exist and I did a manual Find and Replace (Edit - Find) and it works fine. What's wrong with the code? Thank you for your time / response Vince Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61301
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    - Limits in Heading Numbered paragraphs and cross references Anybody know of "documentation" of the apparent limits in Word(97, 2000, 2002. 2003) that apply to heading numbering. I used Word 2003 for the following. I tried to find out how many heading numbered paragraphs could be contained in a single document. So I wrote a little macro to keep generating paragraphs, each consisting of only the counter. I interrupted the macro when the count got to a bit under 36000. I then applied the Heading 1 style to the whole document. So each paragraph is numbered from 1 to the number of paragraphs and the text of the paragraph is the same as the paragraph number. I then used the Insert | References menu to insert a reference, initially using the /h option. I was able to successfully insert a reference to the number of the last paragraph, however, when I almost immediately followed that by attempting to insert a reference to the paragraph's text, the cross reference inserted was to an entirely different paragraph. I tried a few more insertions, eventually getting to the point where the incorrect cross reference was always inserted, and finally to a point where the Insert Cross Reference dialog, in effect, blew up. Ultimately, an attempt to insert a reference to the later paragraphs, caused things to hang AND the first 32767 items disappeared from the list of headings in the cross reference dialog. In addition, Norton Auntie Virus 2004 got blown out of the System tray. I did not notice the point at which this occurred. Note that I do not use the NAV Office plug-in and I disabled NAV's Autoprotect when I ran the macro, so NAV should not have been poking around. Perhaps, most important, I noticed the following. While scrolling thru the list of Headings in the cross reference menu, the first 32767 were listed in a normal font, but starting with 32768, both the paragraph number and text are dimmed My questions include: 1. What is the limit on the number of Heading numbered paragraphs that may be included in a document? 2. What is the limit on the number of such paragraphs that may be consistently cross referenced via the cross reference menu? I do recall seeing a statement that the number of bookmarks in a document is limited to about 16K. Obviously, that places an upper limit on the number of heading paragraphs that can be cross referenced, and the number is reduced further by other bookmarks that may be used in the document. So, I also must wonder why Word allows the inclusion of more heading paragraphs than the bookmark limit without some sort of warning? Heck, I imagine if I tried to generate a TOC, things really would have gone haywire. And, of course, my last silly question, where's the documentation? -- http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61300
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    - Storing Program Settings Hello, I have around 30 (at most) text boxes and combo boxes that have settings which need to be stored and restored when the program starts. (This is a VBA program but I think, it also applies to VB). In the future, many more settings could be added and they would also have to be saved and loaded (like a template a program uses for different conditions). I am not sure about the best way to go about this that could save coding in the long run. I wanted to write a text file like: Condition1;Value1;Value2;Value3 Condition2;Value1;Value2;Value3 Condition3;Value1;Value2;Value3 and when loading this file, to load (say) the first three textboxes with their corresponding values, I would split each line and check the condition and populate the textboxes / comboboxes. Is this the best way to do this? Thank you for your time / responses. Vince Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61296
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    - How to get the "next table" and the "previous table" There are some tables in my document, and the cusor focus in somewhere. How can I get the object of next table, like this statement: Set oTab = Selection.Tables(1).Next 'this is pseudocode Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61294
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    - Running a Macro in a Template, on Event Hi. I have a macro that I've constructed in word which will insert bookmarks as per a table template that I've created in our Visual FoxPro based database/frontend. The Visual FoxPro frontend inserts this information into Word - and I've also instructed it to use a word template which contains my Macro The Macro works fine, but what I'm wanting to do is automate the process, rather than having to run the Macro once the document has been produced from FoxPro, using the .dot file. Is there any way to make this happen? I've tried several of the On-Events but none of them seem to work. What I basically want it to do, is once the Document has been opened and the information has been sent to it from our FoxPro database, that the Macro automatically runs Thanks in Advance David Bloch Houston Medical Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61290
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    - Word Template - wanting to run a Macro on opening Hi I have a Word template that I've created which has a macro attached to insert bookmarks across a letter template we have in our database system. The database system uses the object libraries in Word to create the Word Document and can use a template to start its design with. This works fine and the Macro will work across the letter template we extract from our database. What I am wanting to do is make the code run automatically as soon as the template has been opened. Here is the code I have so far. Sub Bookmarks() 'Enter the number of lines in the letterhead. I.E six lines is 11 LineCount = 11 ' Pat Name Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Patient Name:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="patname" ' Your Ref Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Your Ref:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="yourref" ' Address Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Address:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="address" ' Our Ref Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Our Ref:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="ourref" 'DOB Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "DOB:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="dob" ' Reqdate Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Request Date:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="reqdate" ' Sex Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Sex:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="sex" ' CollectDate Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Collection Date:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="collectdate" ' Medicare Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Medicare No:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="medicare" ' RecDoc Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Receiving Doctor:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="recdoc" ' RecDocRef Bookmark Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="RecDocRef" ' CopyToDoc Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Copy To Doctor:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="copytodoc" ' CopyToDocRef Bookmark Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="copytodocref" ' Examination Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "Examination:" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="examination" ' Findings Bookmark Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst, Count:=LineCount With Selection.Find .Text = "$$" .Wrap = wdFindContinue End With Selection.Find.Execute Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="Findings" ' Go Back to Top of Document Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToLine, Which:=wdGoToFirst End Sub With another part of code. Public WithEvents appWord As Word.Application Private Sub appWord_NewDocument(ByVal Doc As Document) Call Bookmarks End Sub In the Documents How can I make this automate once the merge from our database to the word template is complete? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61288
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    - Not Visible Files I have a routine that performs functions A,B & C when a document is open (determined by "If Documents.count>0") and functions D,E & F when no documents are open (and the screen is 'grey'). Ocassionally a file that I opened in VBA with the "visible:=False" method set apparently is still technically open although it appears not to be (i.e., the screen is grey) (and it is not supposed to be. The routine that was supposed to close it did not.) How can I test for the existence of an open, not visible document.and then close it? Documents.count always returns 1 in this situation but if I try to close the ActiveDocument I get a runtime error saying that the function cannot be performed because no document is open. Thanks, Ed Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61285
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    - How do I get rid of the PDFMaker error message in WORD 2003? I have followed the suggested remedy downloading any update from Adobe. I still get the error message each time I open WORD. I tride the workaround suggested in the message but the filename was not found. How do I get rid of this message for good? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61282
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    - VBScript: Printing question... I have some VBScript (in an Outlook Form), that calls "CreateObject("Word.Application"). The script processes some data then at the end of the procedure prints out the result. This works fine on my local machine, however, if another user attempts the same process it does not print the output. Ref: [msgbox "Printing to " & objWord.ActivePrinter] below... I added the msgbox, and now verified that on each machine the correct printer is configured (or displayed) in the msgbox. But, the form does not print. What I observe is; the item shows up in the respective printer queue(s) (but only for a very brief second) then vanishes and nothing prints... Suggestions/comments? Current working code (except printing on other machines...) '----------------------Printing Routine------------------------ Dim objWord Dim strTemplate Dim strField Dim strField1 Dim objDoc Dim objMark Dim mybklist Dim counter Sub cmdPrint_Click() Item.Save Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") ' Put the name of the Word template that contains the bookmarks strTemplate = "OSR.dot" ' Location of Word template; could be on a shared LAN strTemplate = "\\ivory\forms\" & strTemplate Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add(strTemplate) Set mybklist = objDoc.Bookmarks For counter = 1 to mybklist.count Set objMark = objDoc.Bookmarks(counter) strField = objMark.Name If strField = "SentField" then strField1 = CStr(Item.SentOn) Else strField1 = Item.UserProperties(strField) End If objMark.Range.InsertBefore strField1 Next msgbox "Printing to " & objWord.ActivePrinter objDoc.PrintOut objWord.Quit(0) End Sub Thanks VERY much, in advance! Bill Billmire - -- Bill Billmire Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61279
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    - Tab Position Hi, I am new to VBA in Word. Would anyone be able to answer this: If I have two tabs and I am at the position starting at the second tab, how can I determine in VBA if there is anything at the first tab on the next line. For example: Tab 1 Tab 2 Line 1 Some Text Some other text Line 2 Yet more text If there is a paragraph mark at the end of "Some other text" on Line 1, when I return to the start of the next line, how can I determine if there is anything at Tab 1 for the second line? I hope I am explaining this clear enough! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61278
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    - identifying most recently used symbol (via VBA) in MSO2003, as shown in the insert symbol dialogue box Does anyone know where the information for the most recently used symbol can be accessed via VBA? It must be stored somewhere, because it is the leftmost symbol of the recently used symbols in the insert symbol dialogue box. I often use the same symbol lots of times in a single document, so I want to assign a macro to a custom button that simply inserts whatever the last symbol was that was inserted in the document. It'll still be better than using the keyboard shortcut, for example [<alt>+0176], assuming I could even remember the keyboard shortcut... :-/ Thanks! Keith -- The enclosed questions or comments are entirely mine and don't represent the thoughts, views, or policy of my employer. Any errors or omissions are my own. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61276
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    - Word Field Merge with Excel Hello, What procedure would I need to follow to have a field in MS Word import/fill with values from MS Excel on a cell-by-cell basis (i.e. value from A1, A2, A3, A4 etc.) Your help would be greatly appreciated. Ed Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61271
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    - Macros Disabled in Word 2003 Hi, I am trying to run a macro but I continue to get an error message indicating that macros are disabled, I have followed the steps outlined in the online help but this does not appear to make any diff. I can open up the macro and get it to run on my desktop but not on the laptop. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61270
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    - Macros I am trying to make two simple macros which do not seem to work. If you can help I would really appreciate it. (1) I am trying to make a macro to go into Edit, Paste Special, Unformatted Text. Every time I try to do it, the macro runs with the text formatted. (2) Word's toolbar print button when pressed, automatically prints the page without giving you the Print dialog box first. So I am trying to make a macro to print with the dialog box opening so I can then put it on the toolbar. But I cannot end the macro with the dialog box open - it won't allow it. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61264
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    - How to serach breaks of sections, columns or text wrappings? Is there a way to find these breaks in a document in Word XP? Do these breaks have vb constants for which one could search with VBA? TIA, ANDy -- Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61263
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    - Checkbox form When I add a checkbox to my template, the document creates an X in the box instead of a checkmark. Does anyone know how to change that? I can't find the answer anywhere. Why would a check box button create an x? thanks Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61258
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    - Find the value of an charecter adjacent to the selection? I would like to step through a document until a full stop is found and then insert a character IF the next character is a space. So I look for a "." with Selection.Find, but how could I proceed then? Does Word XP VBA have a built-in function to evaluate the character next to the position where the Find statement brings me (the selection containing the full stop)? Best, ANDy -- Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61252
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    - embedding visio objects in word 2000 error At the present I am having problems trying to open picture logo objects in a word 2000 document. Instead of the logo picture I get {embed word.picture.8}. I have reinstalled the office 2000/word/service packs etc. I will be grateful for any help, Mark Palmer. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61250
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    - Merge with conditions. Pls help ------------------------ Name Stuff Num ------------------------ David Ball 2 Ali Cake 1 Sue Ribbon 3 Kelly Chair 2 Mail Merge if Num = 2, merge as shown below: David <-show in merge doc Kelly <-show in merge doc if Num = 1, merge as shown below: Ali if Num = 3, merge as shown below: Sue Can this type of merging be done in Microsoft Word??? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61243
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    - Word 2000 Looping Macro How To Hi, I've got a partial macro that correctly performs the beginning of what I want but then fails. Here is what I've got: Sub BlogEq_URL_Formatter() ' ' BlogEq_URL_Formatter Macro ' Macro recorded 1/6/2005 by . ' Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend Selection.Copy Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.Paste Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1 Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = "\[?*/" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchWildcards = True End With Selection.Find.Execute With Selection If .Find.Forward = True Then .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart Else .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd End If .Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne If .Find.Forward = True Then .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Else .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart End If .Find.Execute End With Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1 Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = "\.?*\]" .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchWildcards = True End With Selection.Find.Execute With Selection If .Find.Forward = True Then .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart Else .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd End If .Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne If .Find.Forward = True Then .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Else .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart End If .Find.Execute End With Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1 Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = "-" .Replacement.Text = " " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindAsk .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchWildcards = True End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1 Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine End Sub It's supposed to take a list of URLs, one per line, and extract some information from it and then put that on the next line. It does that fine, but I need it to repeat until the end of the document. Right now, it does the first line and then a message pops up asking me if I want to continue searching the rest of the documnet. If I click no, the macro stops. If I click yes, the macro finds "-" and replaces with a space. I need the macro to somehow automatically quit finding "-" and return to the beginning of the macro and continue on until there are no more URLs in the document. The URLs look like this: [http://mydomain.com/this-page.html] [http://mydomain.com/this-other-page.html] And I'm trying to get: [http://mydomain.com/this-page.html] this page [http://mydomain.com/this-other-page.html] this other page Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Robert Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61242
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    - How to write a macro to extract content from word to excel .copy . I am trying to write a macro in excel which will extract the tabular data in word .. so that I can consolidate the info from multiple word files into excel report.... but here I am able to open word document and select the word content from table 1 and put the data into excel .. but my next lines of code which try to copy other parts of the word document seems to be not working anymore .... Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61239
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    - how to find a number with that macro Hi, I am finding character all right with it but does not work with number, please help me to understand why? -- XP home , Office 97 any or all responses are gratefully accepted and thank you for your time Running Compaq P3, 500Mhz WIN XP home, Office 97 Dialup (no choice here) Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61238
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    - how to find a number with that macro -- XP home , Office 97 any or all responses are gratefully accepted and thank you for your time Running Compaq P3, 500Mhz WIN XP home, Office 97 Dialup (no choice here) Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61237
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    - Regex & Wildcards Hey, I need to find the following by matching Wild Cards. 1.1 mol/L 1 mol/L 1mol/L 1.1 mol /L 1 mol /L 1mol /L 1.1 mol / L 1 mol / L 1mol / L 1.1 mol/ L 1 mol/ L 1mol/ L A sentence could contain any one this. For instance "James drank a solution of Nitrogen Peroxide with a concentration of 5.15 mol/L". This is what I could come up with: ([0-9.]@)( @)(mol/L) Takes care of any numerals / decimals but does not account for: a) The space between the number and mol/L (It looks for one space or more but there is a possibility that a space might not exist like 1.1mol/L) b) It strictly looks for mol/L and can't account for mol / L, mol/ L or mol /L. In order to use this, I would have to repeat each instance with appropriate spaces! Questions: 1) How do I write a single Wildcard match for all the possibilities listed above? 2) How can I say "Optional" in Regex. Eg. Di[peg] could be anyone of "Dig" "Dip" or "Die". But I need to say that "Di" may or may not be followed by "p" "e" or "g". In Perl, I would say "(Di)([epg])*" How do I say that in VBA? Thanks a lot for your time / any reponse. Vince Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61236
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    - >> Mail message Hi, I have created a word template that is used as an email template. When used to create a new document the email address detail section is visible. When creating a new document using code the email section is not visible. I have tried the line... Set docReminder = Documents.Add( _ Template:=TEMPLATE_PATH & "Contracter Report Reminder.dot", _ DocumentType:=wdNewEmailMessage, _ Visible:=False) But the document type wdNewEmailMessage causes a blank email page. That is the contents of the template are removed. How do I show the email address section when creating a document using code? Any ideas or suggestions appreciated :-) Thanks Jonathan Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61234
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    - Question about hover tips I can't find what to call these so I'm referring to them as hover tips. I'm referring to the messages that appear when I run my cursor over the toolbar icons. For example, when I just placed my cursor over the "New Post" icon in Outlook Express, "Write Message" appeared. My question is whether VBA supports such a functionality on userforms. I'd like a brief explanatory message to pop up when a user runs their cursor over a check box option. Barney Byrd Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61232
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    - Question about hover tips I can't find what to call these so I'm referring to them as hover tips. I'm referring to the messages that appear when I run my cursor over the toolbar icons. For example, when I just placed my cursor over the "New Post" icon in Outlook Express, "Write Message" appeared. My question is whether VBA supports such a functionality on userforms. I'd like a brief explanatory message to pop up when a user runs their cursor over a check box option. Barney Byrd Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61231
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    - Question about hover tips I can't find what to call these so I'm referring to them as hover tips. I'm referring to the messages that appear when I run my cursor over the toolbar icons. For example, when I just placed my cursor over the "New Post" icon in Outlook Express, "Write Message" appeared. My question is whether VBA supports such a functionality on userforms. I'd like a brief explanatory message to pop up when a user runs their cursor over a check box option. Barney Byrd Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61230
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    - Print Layout window VBA Code I am writing a VBA macro for a word template and when I open the document it comes up in the normal view instead of the print layout view. After the document is open I can go View - Print Layout but others will be using the template so I would like it to open automatically in the Print Layout view. I am using Word 2003. How can I make the document open in Print Layout using VBA code. Thanks Mike Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61229
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    - How do I put a border around just 1 column? I am using Word 2003 to make a booklet using a 2 column document. I wanted to use word art and a border around just one column but I can only get it around the entire page. Can you help? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61228
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    - Word (.doc) -> Text (.txt) conversion I'm running a large site which received many .doc files daily which need to be converted into plain text, the purpose of which is to supply data for the site's search engine which then points users to the appropriate .doc files. The raw text is also needed to populate HTML preview pages for the .doc files. My question is simple - what is the easiest (preferably server side) method for converting .doc files into raw text. I'm running Windows server so I presume that .doc API and script commands would be fairly easy to implement. If a server side solution is impossible then a locally executed method could fit the bill too. It just needs to be QUICK and AUTOMATED. I'm not going to copy and paste from MS Word into Notepad for 10 hours every day. Any suggestions kindly requested. Rob Ponting rob_ponting@hotmail.com Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61227
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    - AutoCorrect.dot : Run-time error '5941' ? greetings! and apologies if this is the wrong forum (please redirect me if it is). i need to export and import all my AutoCorrect entries, so they can be transferred to another machine. when i run dave rado's autocorrect.dot (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm) on work2k (under winxp) i get an error box saying "Run-time error '5941': The requested member of the collection does not exist." when i click "end" (1 of 3 choices, the other being "debug" and "cancel"), i get a newly created word document with a table, several rows filled with my entries, and then several more table rows empty. saving this document, and running autocorrect.dot (restore) on it gets me another box saying "This document is not in the correct format for an AutoCorrect Backup document". i tried deleting the blank table rows, saving, and using this instead, but get the same "This document is not ..." error box. i tried running Macros9.dot, but only a very few rows are created, meaning, most of my autocorrect entries are ignored. any and all help would be appreciated! cheers, pns Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61221
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    - How do I display different parts of a Word document based on form. I am creating a Word Template which needs to display different sections of the document based on the selection in a form field at the beginning of the document. I need to minimize macro's - although I know this will require one. I don't want to put the entire text of the required section in the macro if there is a way to create the document and simply 'hide' the unnecessary sections based on form field selection. Any ideas? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61219
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    - toc Is it possible to retrieve TOC info? I want to know how many first level TOC item and how many second level TOC item my document has. and is it possible to select base on the TOC item? thanks Tomcat Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61216
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    - Read Tabstops Manually applied to a paragraph I want to read only the tabstops that have been manually applied to a paragraph (Not tab stops in the style or the default tab stops). Both of the following reads default tab settings. Greatly appreciate all Help. Sub ReadTabs1() Dim sTmp As String, i As Integer, Para As Paragraph Set Para = Selection.Paragraphs(1) For i = 1 To Para.TabStops.Count sTmp = sTmp & CStr(Para.TabStops(i).Position / 72) & _ ": " & CStr(Para.TabStops(i).Position) & vbCrLf Next MsgBox sTmp End Sub Sub ReadTabs2() Dim sTmp As String, tb As TabStop, Para As Paragraph Set Para = Selection.Paragraphs(1) For Each tb In Para.TabStops sTmp = sTmp & CStr(tb.Position / 72) & _ ": " & CStr(tb.Position) & vbCrLf Next MsgBox sTmp End Sub -- Tim Shaffer Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61215
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    - Selection.Information Hi, I am using the following to get the number of pages there are in a Word document (from within Excel). I can also use it directly in Word without the "appWrd ". Dim EndPage as Integer EndPage = appWrd.Selection.Information (wdNumberOfPagesInDocument) This works sometimes, but the other times I get the error message "Run Time Error 91 Object Variable or With Block Variable not Set". Is there something additional I need to do so I do not get this error? I do not understand why it works sometimes but not all the times. THANKS! Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61212
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    - repeat Find & Replace until no more ocurrences are found Hi, I want to replace all instances of multiple consecutive spaces in a document. When I record a Find & Replace command, 2 spaces are replaced with 1. And 3 spaces become 2; 4 become 3, etcetera, so multiple spaces still exist. This is the recorded code from Word XP. Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = " " .Replacement.Text = " " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll How can I efficiently change the code so it goes on replacing multiple spaces until only single spaces are left? Best regards, ANDy Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61206
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    - Change language of textboxes I have a large document that is in English, it has within it drawings and textboxes that were inserted by users whose language was set to French - How can I change the language of all textboxes in a document? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61199
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    - Word Hang Bookmarks I have a problem with the followed macro under Word. I have a document with 35 pages and I bookmarked each lines of this document which means that I have nearly 600 bookmarks named started by SIMILIS_ and then a number beetween 1 and 600. The aim of this macro is to highlight each bookmarks. The problem which appears is that after a while I have a message from MsWord which tells me thar I do not have enough memory space and asks me if I want to continue. If I clicked Yes Word crashes !!! I don't understand the problem at all. Thanks in advance for your help. If you need to test this Macrowith my document, don't hesitate to write me and I will send it to you. Reagrds, MickaÃ«l Sub HighLight_Actif() Dim bkMks As Bookmarks Set bkMks = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks MsgBox "Test" Dim Words For Words = 1 To 5000 Step 1 Dim name Dim Range As Range name = "SIMILIS_" & Words If bkMks.Exists(name) = True Then Set Range = bkMks.Item(name).Range Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow End If Next Words MsgBox "End " & Words End Sub Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61198
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    - Searching for comments In Word97, searching for comments used ^a. This does not seem to work for latest versions of Word. Any ideas? Thanks -- John Doue Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61193
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    - How to get the temp directory of the system? Hi everyone How to get the temporary directory of the system, in my VBA program? I want to create some temporary files for my operations. Thank you! Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61187
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    - Returning the value of a InlineShape Hi, I am trying to return the value of a combobox that I have inserted into a Word document. It is not a formfield because my list needs to consist of more than 25 members. As a result, I inserted a VBA control directly into the document. After doing this, I initialized the objects in the normal way, but haven't been able to isolate the code to return the current value. I was able to determine that controls inserted in this fashion are viewed programmatically as an inlineshape, and so far everything points to this being correct. Unfortunately I haven't found any documentation where the inlineshape is anything other than a graphic object. Could it be... activedocument.inlineshapes(1).???? Can someone please send me in the right direction? Desperate for help! Thanks, Jill Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61186
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    - How to resize a picture? In Word 2000 I have a macro to insert an picture that the user chooses, select the picture , and then make the height 1" (72 pt) - keeping the width proportional. I then want the macro to look at whether the width is greater than 320 pt and if so, make the width exactly 320 pt - keeping the height proportional (which means it will end up less than 1" - that's ok). The first set of steps below work - the picture change to 1" high. The second set of steps does not give an error message but does not do anything. What do I need to do to make the macro resize the picture to 320 pt wide, keeping the height proportional? TIA, Vivian Carroll 'SELECT & FORMAT THE PICTURE TO BE 1" HIGH - these steps work With Selection .MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend .InlineShapes(1).Width = Selection.InlineShapes(1).Width * 72 / _ Selection.InlineShapes(1).Height .InlineShapes(1).Height = 72 'CHANGE THE PICTURE TO BE ABOUT 3.2" WIDE IF IT IS WIDER THAN 3.2" - these steps don't work If .InlineShapes(1).Width > 320 Then .InlineShapes(1).Height = Selection.InlineShapes(1).Height * 320 / _ Selection.InlineShapes(1).Width .InlineShapes(1).Width = 320 End If End With End Sub Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61184
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    - VBScript and a Merge Doc I found the answer to this question several months ago but with the newsgroup revamp I can't find it again so I apologise if this is the wrong place to post this. I am using a link to open a word application merge document, however with the new install of MS Word the document will not open as a merge form. The solution to this was to edit the registry entry, apparently in some patch or another they disabled this for security reasons. Can anyone point me at the knowledge base article, or give me the regedit instructions for this? New machine and user and the old tech who had the documentation is gone and so are the instructions. Thank You Cory Blythe Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61175
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    - How to create route button for e-mailing a template. I'm using Word 2003 to create a template with a route button. I want the route button to save the document I've just filled in and automatically route it via e-mail to 3 people without any other action necessary. I've tried to record a macro to create the actions, but it fails. Any ideas? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61173
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    - just a quick question well i went to open an attachment and when it open it look like this Ã¾Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¾Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿ with smal boxes in front of the letters so how do i change that so it can be readable? Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61166
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    - Saving Macro I have been asked if it is possible to have a default setting when saving a document. There are wanting the first part of each doc to have the year/month/day then a description of some kind..is there anyway of setting this so it defaults. Mat Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61161
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    - Help checking for printers in Word VBA I have a macro that was written to extract a printer name from a custom document property embedded in a Word file and set the printer to print to based on that name. All of that is working just fine... my problem comes when the printer named in the custom document property does not exist on the current machine. Whenever this happens, I would like to simply use the default printer on the current machine instead. I'm not really sure how to check if a particular printer exists or not. Can anyone help? My code is listed below... feel free to offer any suggestions on the current working stuff too as I am a C# programmer and the syntax here is foreign to me. -------------------------------------------------------- Sub SubPrint() Dim sMyActivePrinter As String Dim iMyCopies As Integer Selection.Collapse sMyActivePrinter = ActivePrinter iMyCopies = 1 For Each prop In ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties proptest = prop.Name If proptest = "PrintCopies" Then iMyCopies = prop.Value End If If proptest = "Printer" Then ActivePrinter = prop.Value End If Next prop Application.PrintOut FileName:="", _ Range:=wdPrintAllDocument, Item:= _ wdPrintDocumentContent, Copies:=iMyCopies, _ Pages:="", PageType:=wdPrintAllPages, _ Collate:=True, Background:=True, _ PrintToFile:=False, PrintZoomColumn:=0, _ PrintZoomRow:=0, PrintZoomPaperWidth:=0, _ PrintZoomPaperHeight:=0 ActivePrinter = sMyActivePrinter End Sub Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61159
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    - Split a Word file Hi, I have a need to periodically split an 8 page document into 2 seperate files of 4 pages each. At the moment I have to manually select this - but it is messy as I have alot of text boxes, etc, and formatting gets screwed up. Does anyone know of any utility or process within Word that can split the files into 2 - I must still have .doc file format - not pdf or any other type. Thanks Mat. Tag: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word Tag: 61156

Hi, I'm going to write a program that is to be integrated with word and I
don't quite know where to start. I've been fiddling with VBA for a while but
there are too many limitations. I need to know what tools will make the task
easier.

- It should be possible to fire via a word toolbar.
- I need to use functions that are obviously used internally by Word but
that I can't find in the VBA docs, like the _correct_ word count as opposed
to the one described in the docs that counts newlines and punctuation. I can
write my own, but prefer to use what already exists.
- I need to package the program nicely so it's easy to install.

What tool(s) will be more helpful? Should I go with .NET? Which programming
language? I know C++ well, and some VBA. Perhaps C#?

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks :-)

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Re: Tools for creating application to integrate with Word by Word

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Tue Jan 25 18:30:53 CST 2005

G'day "Eva Hovelsrød" <Eva Hovelsrød@discussions.microsoft.com>,

I can offer professional consultation on these issues of required.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice

"Eva Hovelsrød" <Eva Hovelsrød@discussions.microsoft.com> reckoned:

>Hi, I'm going to write a program that is to be integrated with word and I
>don't quite know where to start. I've been fiddling with VBA for a while but
>there are too many limitations. I need to know what tools will make the task
>easier.
>
> - It should be possible to fire via a word toolbar.
> - I need to use functions that are obviously used internally by Word but
>that I can't find in the VBA docs, like the _correct_ word count as opposed
>to the one described in the docs that counts newlines and punctuation. I can
>write my own, but prefer to use what already exists.
> - I need to package the program nicely so it's easy to install.
>
>What tool(s) will be more helpful? Should I go with .NET? Which programming
>language? I know C++ well, and some VBA. Perhaps C#?
>
>Any pointers will be greatly appreciated!
>Thanks :-)

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